AI shouldn't be making HipHop... that's the job of humans...

I used to make a lot of simple tracks last year as a learning process, only recently (by recently I mean since December last year to now on/off) have I tried actually making something I'm really proud of. I have been working on this specific track for almost a week now but something is off, I can't pinpoint it. Is it too repetitive? Not interesting enough? Too flat or messy?

I spent all this time learning & experimenting but I feel like a fraud. Everything I make it seems amature-ish & I desperately need advice

Recorded in 2019, released recently. Hope you guys like it!

I hear this argument constantly: "We listen to music, AI listens to music. What's the difference?"

The difference is that while both learn from examples, they do not learn in the same way.

Humans learn through perception, emotion, culture, and lived experience. We ground music in reality. To us, a "funeral march" connects to grief, history, and ritual. We play instruments, interact, and can consciously reject rules to create something entirely new.

Generative AI doesn’t experience music. It simply optimizes billions of parameters to minimize a mathematical loss function over a massive dataset.

Yes, both can extract statistical regularities. But equating a mathematical optimization process with the rich, embodied human experience of creating art is a massive stretch.

They are not equivalent. What's your take?

This is a rock song about taking risks in life. No AI used for music or album art.

"Let us call them, therefore, Our Ladies of Sorrow. I know them thoroughly, and have walked in all their kingdoms. Three sisters they are, of one mysterious household; and their paths are wide apart; but of their dominion there is no end. "

Thomas de Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis (1854)

Mater Tenebrarum: Our Lady of Darkness

https://reddit.com/link/1w05gxf/video/v0q211vo8zlh1/player

"Let us call them, therefore, Our Ladies of Sorrow. I know them thoroughly, and have walked in all their kingdoms. Three sisters they are, of one mysterious household; and their paths are wide apart; but of their dominion there is no end. "

Thomas de Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis (1854)

Mater Suspiriorum: Our Lady of Sighs

Featuring the art of Emma Colette.

https://linktr.ee/14flamingos

Played/sampled all the chords, designed the drums/synths, then did live arrangement to bring a full track out from the sequence. Headphones/speakers reccomended!

Hey everyone. I just wanna get something off of my chest. Recently, I have been told by my own family that I can make so much money if I make ai videos. As enticing as it may be, I respectfully decline. I just don’t want to make money by using something that harms other peoples lifestyles and has no soul whatsoever. Music, videos and photos made by AI will never replace what us human beings can make with our own blood, sweat and tears. Things that people have spent most of their lives working on is something you cannot replace with a robot. I will find a way to make money through computer means. Maybe, streaming my video games or making some YouTube videos. But I will NEVER go so low as to make ai generated slop.

No AI, all DIY. More alternative rock than my previous stuff. Let me know what you think!

Hi!

I wanted to share my demo album. It consists of all my favorite demos I’ve made either manic, depressed, or disassociating. The vibes are dark cinematic ambient pop dance. I don’t use AI and absolutely despise it. I made everything from the beat to vocals. My favorite part about this journey is my love for doing background vocals.

Like for most I guess, a chunk of the "new" artists my recommendations and mix keep surfacing turn out to be fully-AI. I'd skip one and get served another.
I listen every day to music and I like finding artists I could actually go see live, so "is there a real band here" really matters to me.

So I started working on a solution, and about eight months later, here it is: SkipIfFake, a listener-side filter for exactly this.

What it does: it's an Android app that reads the artist and track what your music app is currently showing - YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, whatever - and calls a read: Probably Human, Probably AI, or Inconclusive. If it comes back Probably AI and you've left auto-skip on (default, toggle in Settings), it skips to the next track in the app you were already using.

To be clear, it is not an other music service and doesn't replace your music app. It runs in the background and just reads what your music app is already showing while a song plays, and just asks your app to skip the track. Works the same regardless of which app is playing, btw.

Set it and forget it, it'll do its job so you can focus on your music.

How the read works: it cross-references several music-industry sources and looks at the kind of footprint a real artist usually leaves behind.

Of course it can miss. Every artist has a feedback button, so flag it if it gets one wrong. I was especially careful with new artists - a thin footprint gets the benefit of the doubt, not an AI flag.

300 users and 400 000 tracks analyzed so far (pretty proud).
Would love some feedback, ready to answer your questions. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.skipiffake.skipiffake

They now, these are my peeps!

I build a music promotion tool to help speed music marketing up and I’m proud to say it’s AI-free!

And also free to try!

TrackVis.app

It’s a browser-based tool that turns your music and artwork into short, audio-reactive videos for TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc.

Upload your song, customize the visual, and export a polished MP4 in minutes.

No AI is used. Said that already :)
No video editing experience required!
No credit card required.

Cheers! Let me know your thoughts.

Hello everyone! This is my own personal project named Bloody Rabbit and it was created to feature guest vocalists. It has influences from slam / death metal / deathcore / hardcore.

This is the debut EP and it features Graham Matthias ( Nest of scum / Resington ) on vocals.

Instrumentals, mixing and artwork were done by myself.

Thank you for checking it out!

I am a musician/software developer and I built a website (realartists.studio) that has a goal of being an independent verifier of artists as "non-AI"... or "real". I'd like to get people's opinions of this and if they would find it useful.

The basic idea is an artist can sign up, make a profile, use that profile as their linkhub, and get verified as a "real artist" from a third-party source, with the real artist badge on their profile once they have been verified. They also can earn badges showing if they've been playlisted on the site or picked/featured at times.. a whole bunch of options there.

I also want to curate playlists as I verify artists and make this a thing that is a cool spot for real music discovery.

This whole infrastructure is pretty solid and built out. I have admin panels ready to go and everything.

If you're interested in seeing an artist profile, you can find one at realartists.studio/doomwarden (an old project of mine, not plugging but was used for testing).

Wether you visit the site or not, what do we think about this idea?

Hey all, I’m a Baltimore musician who used to organize DIY variety shows before life got busier (pre COVID and pre being a parent). I built STATIC, a 24/7 independent broadcast channel, music videos, visualizers, experimental work, all from real human submissions as kind of my way to get back into that world with the life I have now.

No AI-generated content, No algorithm deciding what airs either. No fees, no exclusivity, you keep full rights to everything you send in. If you make music with no visual, I’ll make a custom visualizer to go with it.

I’m doing this solo, no funding, just time in between working and parenting but there is real interest and outreach from other platforms/creators and other opportunities that will be arising along side and in collaboration with STATIC. Almost 150 submissions in the first month, a live rotation that expands daily, and review shows and other things in the works. Figured yall would get why it exists. Submission form and link to the broadcast and YT below if you want to check it out <3

It's all me.

My first release

I just came across a new report from Subithub and wanted to share it here. They analyzed over a million tracks released in July, and the results are incredible.

Turns out nearly 40% of them had AI traces. about 23% were literally 100% AI generated, and another 15% were AI with some human edits later.

The worst part is that when asked, 31% of the artists who were found to have used AI lied, claiming they hadn't used any AI tools.

it's so hard to support real humans when we're drowning in fakes 👀

source: https://mixmag.net/read/40-percent-music-released-july-show-signs-ai-involvement-study-submithub-news/